Description

No title - Launching of the Q4.

Technicolor.

Various shots of the Q4. C/U and M/S propellor. M/S and L/S ship hanging over slipway. L/S of the ship. L/S as Queen Elizabeth II walks along with Lord Aberconway, Chairman of John Brown and Company, and Managing Director John Rannie. M/S as she stops to talk to crowds. M/S Princess Margaret and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in background. M/S Queen walking along with John Rannie and Sir Basil Smallpiece. M/S ship. C/U Queen walking along. M/S crowds. M/S Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, looking at launching mechanism. M/S Queen laughing, pan out to scene.

M/S pan across the drag chains. L/S ship. L/S Queen and party walking up steps. Various shots as chocks are knocked away. C/U foreman watching. Various shots as they knock chocks away. M/S two foremen watching. L/S pan down ship. M/S as the Queen is handed the name of the ship and smiles. M/S as she steps up to the microphone and announces the ship will be called Queen Elizabeth II, people applaud and she launches the ship. Camera pans across to the ship as bottle smashes on side. Various shots as the ship slides into the water and people cheer. M/S of the chains being dragged after it. M/S Queen, Duke and Princess Margaret watching, the Queen smells her bouquet of flowers. L/S ship in water.